Criminal Law – Prior ‘enhanced’ state conviction is violent felony under ACCA

Defendant's sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm was properly enhanced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) on the basis of two Michigan convictions for domestic violence.Background"Although the maximum sentence for a felon-in-possession charge is ten years imprisonment, ACCA enhances the applicable sentence to a fifteen year ...